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ZIZ294 Why Do We Enjoy Feeling Ashamed (01.11.2022)

Slavoj Žižek - Collected Recordings

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The Dark Aspects of a Carnival

With a Stalinism, it's absolutely clear this functioning or this carnival-esque dimension. In 1934, Ukrainian and central committee had 200 members, central committee of the party. You know, how many of them were alive three years later? No, two years later, three. That's what I call a purge. Usually, carnivals don't produce a new order, they are just a momentary explosion and then things return to the old order. And that's what I don't like. What interests me is how to say after you get drunk, the morning after. How this energy unleashed is then translated into a new order. The really difficult thing is not to organize one million

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